Let’s face it—there are quite a bit of definitions to memorize within the telecom area. And in the event you’ve ever racked your mind for what “MVNO” stands for on a Monday morning, you are not alone.
This is a scorching tip: there is a secret Telecom Glossary tucked away on the finish of our free 2022 State of the Community Report.
Reserve it to your telephone. Print it out and show it in your fridge. Or simply maintain studying to peruse the phrases listed beneath A, B, and C.
Addressable Wholesale Capability
The quantity of capability that wholesale operators are capable of promote within the type of managed bandwidth providers.
Autonomous System (AS)
Organizes information about IP addresses which might be accessible via its community and broadcasts that information throughout different networks utilizing standardized BGP routing tables.
Autonomous System Quantity (ASN)
A novel id quantity {that a} community will need to have so as to seem within the world routing tables.
Common Site visitors
The sum of all site visitors throughout a hyperlink in a single month, divided by the variety of seconds within the month.
Bandwidth
A measure of information-carrying capability on a communications channel. May additionally be known as “capability.”
Bandwidth Demand
See Used bandwidth.
Bit
A binary unit of knowledge that may have both of two values, 0 or 1.
Bit Price
The quantity of capability transmitted by a single wavelength.
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
A standardized gateway protocol that exchanges routing data amongst autonomous methods on the web.
Channel
Transmission path for a telecommunications sign.
Colocation
The lease of area to deal with transmission tools on the identical bodily location of a provider or ISP.
Compound Annual Progress Price (CAGR)
This usually refers back to the change in worth over a given time frame.
Content material Suppliers
One of many 4 parts of used bandwidth. Contains networks deployed by operators corresponding to Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, in addition to content material supply networks and lots of others.
Cross-connect
A bodily cable interconnecting tools (servers, switches, routers) in a knowledge middle.
And there is extra—however you will should obtain the e-book to learn it.
The State of the Community Report is our annual telecom check-in, knowledgeable by one other 12 months of information assortment and evaluation from TeleGeography’s bigger analysis portfolio.
Within the report, we extract the most important world bandwidth headlines, take a snapshot of the worldwide web, peruse the most recent in information facilities, test in on the cloud, and end with an replace from the voice market.
